|
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. (Grey Jane)
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation. (Grey Jane)
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. (Grey Jane)
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. (Grey Jane)
Reason is the enemy of faith. (Grey Jane)
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. (Grey Jane)
The principal part of faith is patience. (Grey Jane)
The principal part of faith is patience. (Grey Jane)
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? (Grey Jane)
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory. (Grey Jane)
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Grey Jane)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. (Grey Jane)
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. (Grey Jane)
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. (Grey Jane)
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? (Grey Jane)
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. (Grey Jane)
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. (Grey Jane)
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. (Grey Jane)
Faith is the heroism of the intellect. (Grey Jane)
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. (Grey Jane)
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. (Grey Jane)
|
